Data story · ARCE award notices · Mar 2025 – Oct 2026
7,583 awards in Uruguay went to 2,327 suppliers from March 2025 to October 2026. Most suppliers in Uruguay won one award in the window: 55% of 2,327. The 23 suppliers with the most awards, the top 1%, won 14% of them.
Most awards here give no amount: 1% do. Below 40% we show no value numbers. No supplier won more than under 1% of the awards. MEGALABS URUGUAY S A won the most: 67.
- Awards
- 7,583
- Contract awards from Mar 2025 – Oct 2026, each counted once.
- Winning suppliers
- 2,327
- Suppliers with one or more awards, counted by normalised name.
- Won one award
- 55%
- Share of winning suppliers with exactly one award.
- Top 1% of suppliers
- 14%
- Share of awards won by the 23 suppliers with the most awards.
- Gini coefficient
- 0.57
- Inequality of awards across suppliers: 0 = each wins the same number, 1 = one supplier wins all.
We hold 20 months of data for Uruguay, so the window is 20 months, not 24. Do not compare these shares with 24-month windows.
How the awards spread across suppliers
1% of these awards state an amount. Our floor is 40%, so this story shows counts only.
Uruguay ranks 27th of 51 countries for the Gini coefficient and 37th for the top 1% share. 1st is the most concentrated.
Who wins the most awards
| # | Supplier | Awards | Share of awards |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MEGALABS URUGUAY S A | 67 | under 1% |
| 2 | GUNTER SCHAAF SOCIEDAD ANONIMA | 59 | under 1% |
| 3 | FIERRO VIGNOLI S A FIVISA | 54 | under 1% |
| 4 | GASTROCLINICA S.R.L. | 52 | under 1% |
| 5 | LABORATORIOS CELSIUS S A | 52 | under 1% |
| 6 | W MEDICAL SA | 50 | under 1% |
| 7 | CERAMICAS CASTRO S A | 47 | under 1% |
| 8 | LABORATORIO ION S.A. | 46 | under 1% |
| 9 | SAKIRA SOCIEDAD ANONIMA | 45 | under 1% |
| 10 | FARMACO URUGUAYO S.A. | 45 | under 1% |
Who buys the most
| # | Buyer | Awards | Share of awards |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Centro Hospitalario Pereira Rossell | 365 | 5% |
| 2 | Centro Departamental de Rocha | 359 | 5% |
| 3 | Direc. General de Secretaría. | 359 | 5% |
| 4 | Dirección General de la Salud | 292 | 4% |
| 5 | Centro Departamental de Flores | 239 | 3% |
| 6 | Hospital de San Carlos | 217 | 3% |
| 7 | Hospital Español | 198 | 3% |
| 8 | Banco de Previsión Social | 168 | 2% |
| 9 | Centro Auxiliar de Pando | 153 | 2% |
| 10 | Hospital Maciel | 153 | 2% |
No value columns: 1% of these awards state an amount.
Sectors
The award records for Uruguay have no CPV code, so this story has no sector table.
CPV sector: the sector of the award's CPV code, the EU classification of what a contract buys. Our keyword sector labels elsewhere on the site can give other counts.
How we counted
- ARCE award notices for Uruguay. One record is one contract award: a buyer, a supplier, a date and, where the source gives it, an amount.
- March 2025 to October 2026. We hold 20 months of data for Uruguay, so the window has 20 months, not 24.
- The records for Uruguay have no CPV code, so this story shows no sector numbers. We do not use our keyword sector labels: a hand check found too many wrong labels for most sectors.
- We count each award once: one notice, one amount, one date. We leave out awards with no supplier name, placeholder names such as "persona natural", names that are only a legal form, and names that appear on thousands of unrelated awards.
- We count suppliers by normalised name. A firm under two spellings counts as two suppliers, so the "won one award" share is an upper bound.
- Value numbers need an amount on 40% of the awards or more. Here 1% have one, so the story shows counts only.
- These numbers show how the awards spread across suppliers. They do not show why.
The method is the method of our study of 39 countries: who wins government contracts. Other countries: who wins, country by country. The sector pages show the same numbers for each country and sector with enough data.
Snapshot 2 November 2026. Awards from March 2025 to October 2026 (20 months of data). The numbers change when we add new awards.